Re: Re: Tips on psychological satisfaction from the amounts eaten.

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I hear you loud & clear, Laurie! When I no longer had the responsibility of cooking for my family, I ate cheese sandwiches for about a year! But then I realized that I really like my own cooking and I missed it. I still only cook two or three nights a week. And if I had to go to the store every day, I would surely end it all! :-)

To: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Thu, October 14, 2010 4:32:12 PMSubject: Re: Re: Tips on psychological satisfaction from the amounts eaten.

I think I'm likely sick of cooking because I'm 59 and started cooking dinners every week night at least when I was 12. That's 47 years of cooking pretty much every night. Enough, already! I have cookbooks galore; just bought two new ones.

Unfortunately I don't have the time to shop every day, though that sounds lovely; if I had to rely on that, I'd likely end up eating crackers every night, LOL!

Laurie

Re: Tips on psychological satisfaction from the amounts eaten.

I had that when I lived alone. You lose interest in cooking, because it takes effort. Maybe cooking for one is the answer? This way you would have to go out and shop for fresh things most nights, maybe just buying what looks good? That's how Europeans shop for what I know. No one keeps stuffed fridges just because the ingredients can go bad. It also helps to page through cookbooks at a bookstore. You don't have to be into cooking at all, but at least you will encounter foods you might have not known about before. You might get inspired!>> > I have started to realize something strange: that I truly don't enjoy a lot of food as much as I used to think I did. I now find that I often can't think of

anything I want to eat, and even that some foods that I used to enjoy no longer much appeal to me after a few bites. Some nights I prepare dinner and I eat it only because I know if I don't eat I'll just get hungrier and cranky, but I'm not much enjoying the food. > > I don't know if this is simply a "thrill is gone" kind of thing because food doesn't have that edge of the forbidden anymore (though I think I'm past that stage of being disappointed in food for that reason), or if I'm just discovering my true preferences. I find I get sick of things really fast, and there are times when I just can't stomach the thought of eating anything I have on hand. I've tried cooking new recipes, but leftovers languish in the refrigerator. I seem to want things that are really plain, like a handful of raspberries, or grapes and cheese, or plain roasted chicken, or popcorn, or a corn tortilla with a little butter on it. I've lost my taste for salads

except on rare occasions. Part of it for me is that I am thoroughly sick to death of cooking meals every night, so it all has a taint of "work" for me, but I can't even get all that excited about going out to eat anymore.> > Has this happened to anyone else? I kind of feel like my taste buds are dulled or something. This has been the case since about a month into doing IE.> > Laurie>